India should play a more active role in ending Russia’s war in Ukraine if it wants to win a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council, Ukraine’s ambassador in New Delhi said.

Russian commanders anticipated that Ukraine was planning an incursion into Kursk Oblast months before it occurred, the Guardian reported on Sept. 20, citing a collection of documents that Ukrainian soldiers said they had seized from abandoned Russian positions.

Moscow was aware of Ukraine's plan to launch a surprise offensive into its Western Kursk region as far back as 2023, according to recently revealed Russian documents. Now 45 days into the raid, Russia has so far failed to push Ukraine's forces out of its Western territories,